"The difficult thing is you always take a bit of a gamble, if you change those positions you just lose a little bit of the relationship that players are used to.

“Clayton (Donaldson) is used to playing with Shinns and sometimes it just tips the balance a little bit.

“But that’s the challenge, we are not going to get through the next 18 games with the same team on the pitch – as much as it would be great if we could.

“I think we need one or two of those options and we need to have the ability to be able to change things from time to time.”

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Rowett has now turned his attention to seeing if he can bring in defensive cover following Michael Morrison’s ankle injury.

Blues will try to conduct some business on transfer deadline day but Rowett is also keen to emphasise they have the option of the loan window which reopens later this month. Marc Roberts could be set to arrive from Halifax Town.